Durham will represent the north, while Essex and Surrey will represent London and the south-east, after all three counties were named among the eight teams which will compete in a new top-level domestic women’s competition in England and Wales from next year. They will be joined by Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset and Warwickshire with a further two teams – Yorkshire and Glamorgan – to join by 2027, and two more…
Lanning’s exit from the international game had come as a shock. However, it was on the back of missing three international series in 2023, including the Women’s Ashes, due to an undisclosed medical issue. Even when she retired in November she did not wish to reveal what she had been battling. Lanning instead revealed her private health battle for the first time on the Howie Games podcast, explaining that she…
Sri Lanka 305 for 4 (Athapaththu 195*, de Silva 50*, Khaka 2-54) beat South Africa 301 for 5 (Wolvaardt 184*, Dilhari 2-47) by six wickets In a battle of the captains, Athapaththu’s knock trumped Laura Wolvaardt‘s 184* – the highest by a South African player and her fourth hundred since being named captain last September. She led South Africa to their fifth-highest ODI score and highest against Sri Lanka but…
“Our batting performance was very average,” Gill said at the post-match presentation. “I think the wicket was alright, to be honest. If you see our dismissals, the ball I got out to had nothing to do with the pitch. Even the way Wriddhi [Wriddhiman Saha] bhai got out had nothing to do with the pitch, and Sai [Sudharsan] got run out. So I don’t think it had anything to do…
It took right until the end of the press conference, but Pakistan’s reinstated captain Babar Azam addressed the elephant in the room before he left. “I want to make clear that Shaheen [Afridi] and my bond is not recent, it goes back a long way,” Babar said on the eve of the T20I series opener against New Zealand in Rawalpindi. “We support each other in every situation. Our aim is…
After dismissing Gujarat Titans for 89, the only chat in the Delhi Capitals dugout was to get the job done quickly. They went on to chase down the target with 67 balls to spare and, as a result, their net run rate (NRR) jumped from -0.975 to -0.074 and they leapfrogged Titans to sixth spot on the points table. “We talked about champion mindset,” Rishabh Pant, Capitals captain who was…
Delhi Capitals 92 for 4 (Fraser-McGurk 20, Warrier 2-40) beat Gujarat Titans 89 all out (Rashid 31, Mukesh 3-14) by six wickets At the start of the fourth over, Gujarat Titans were projected to reach 169. By the start of the sixth over, they were trending much lower, to 120. In the end, they were bowled out for double-digits, 89. It was their lowest-ever IPL total, having been brought into…
Jofra Archer hopes to play for England in front of his family in the Caribbean at June’s T20 World Cup but has warned that he would find it hard to cope with “another stop-start year” after persistent injuries over the last three years. Archer has not played a professional match since May 2023 due to an elbow injury but the ECB are planning for him to return to international cricket…
Match details Punjab Kings (seventh) vs Mumbai Indians (eighth)Mullanpur, 7:30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture – The contrast between Kings and Mumbai Punjab Kings have only one batter with more than 150 runs this season, but he’s going to miss Thursday’s game with a shoulder injury. Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, have three over 150 and those who have fewer runs are either middle and lower-order batters or haven’t…
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has roped in former West Indies captain Courtney Walsh as consultant for the national women’s side. Walsh’s appointment comes as the side looks to qualify for the Women’s T20 World Cup in September-October 2024. Walsh is currently with the squad in the UAE, where they will play the qualifying tournament for the Women’s T20 World Cup. The top two teams from the 10-team event, which starts on…